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Language as Scientific Instrument : a Preliminary Digital Analysis of Christiaan Huygens' Last Writings and Correspondence
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- L'articolo si focalizza su un'analisi digitale del testo tramite lo strumento per la linguistica computazionale AntConc al fine di trovare, elencare e comparare le più importanti occorrenze delle parole chiave e la loro posizione in alcuni degli ultimi scritti di Christiaan Huygens, dal 1686 al 1695 e postumi. La maggiore attenzione è rivolta a tre parole chiave - Animus, Potentia and Lex – in relazione agli argomenti del potere di Dio, dell'intelligenza divina e umana, dell'epistemologia probabilistica, della teologia naturale e della pluralità dei mondi. Inoltre, queste parole chiave sono utilizzate per selezionare le lettere scritte da Huygens ai più importanti tra i suoi contemporanei riguardo ai medesimi argomenti.
- Questa sfida innanzitutto comporta la dimostrazione che i suoi ultimi scritti sulle riflessioni filosofiche e teologiche sulla filosofia meccanicistica non sono una anomalia all'interno al lavoro complessivo di Huygens, e in secondo luogo mostra come questi siano indicativi del coinvolgimento di Huygens in un certo numero di discussioni teoriche nella seconda metà del XVII secolo. [Testo dell'editore]
- This essay focuses on a digital text analysis with AntConc computational linguistics tool in order to find, list and compare the most important key word occurrences and their collocations in some of Christiaan Huygens last writings, from 1686 to 1695 and posthumous. The greatest attention is payed to three key words – Animus, Potentia and Lex – related to the themes of God's power, divine and human intelligence, probabilistic epistemology, natural theology and plurality of worlds. In addition, these key words are used to select the letters written by Huygens to the most important of his contemporaries on the same topics.
- This challenge firstly involves demonstrating that his last writings on philosophical and theological reflections on mechanistic philosophy are not an anomaly within Huygens' wider work, and secondly showing that these are indications of Huygens' involvement in a number of theoretical debates in the second half of the seventeenth century. [Publisher's Text]
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ISSN: 2038-1026
KEYWORDS
- History of science; Christiaan Huygens; Digital text analysis; Lexicon; AntConc corpus analysis tool
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